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Cell surface-binding motifs of L2 that facilitate papillomavirus infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 2003
Yang Rongcun, Day Patricia M, Yutzy William H, Lin Ken-Yu, Hung Chien-Fu, Roden Richard B S
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) is the primary etiologic agent of cervical carcinoma, whereas bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV1) causes benign fibropapillomas. However, the capsid proteins, L1 and L2, of these divergent papillomaviruses exhibit functional conservation. A peptide comprising residues 1 to 88 of BPV1 L2 binds to a variety of cell lines, but not to the monocyte-derived cell line D32, and blocks...
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